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Leon Riegel
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Cows aren’t rosy when
they’ve got pink eye
A reader asks;
How contagious is
pinkeye, and what
precautions do I need to take
before animals that have
previously had the disease
into my clean herd? How
long do they carry the
disease?
Dr. Riegel comments:
Pinkeye, also known as
Infectious Bovine Kerato
Conjunctivitis, Infectious
Keratitis or Infectious
Conjunctivitis is very con
tagious.
The disease is seen
primarily durmg the warm
weather months when the fly
population is at its peak.
Flies appear to be the major
vector causing the spread of
the organism that causes the
disease. However, the
disease can be seen during
winter months as well,
spread by direct contact.
At one time, bactenn,
Moraxella bo vis was thought
to be the primary causative
agent of the disease. Now
other bacteria and a virus
have been isolated from
cases of pinkeye.
The signs of the disease
are spasms of the eyelid,
redness around the eye,
excessive tearing, a whitish
appearance around the
outer, normally clear, part
of the eye. These symptoms,
if untreated, may proceed to
the swelling of center of eye,
then to ulcenng and in some
cases rupturing and collapse
of the eye. These signs may
be seen m oneor both eyes.
There is one theory that
puts forth the idea that the
organism which causes the
disease is present in the eye
at all times but is kept under
control by normal ocular
secretions. If the eye is
irritated by either flies,
dusty conditions, pollen etc.,
the disease will appear.
There are other diseases
which can result m sore eyes
such as Infectious Bovin
Rhmotracheitis, and Bovine
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ping fever. Pinkeye must be
differentiated from these.
With these diseases, both
eyes are usually affected to
the same degree at the same
time.
As far as bringing animals
which have had pinkeye into
a clean herd, I would say
that when excessive tearing
has stopped you would be
relatively safe in introducing
them in to a so-called clean
herd. Sources of irritation to
the eyes should be kept
under control.
Almost every Spring we
encounter a farm with a
severe outbreak of pinkeye. I
FmHA, CCC lower
interest rates
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Interest rates on housing and
farm loans made by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Farmers Home Ad
ministration and crop loans
made by the Commodity
Credit Corporation have
been reduced m response to
the nation’s rural credit
needs. Secretary of
Agriculture Bob Bergland
said Thursday.
Changes in rates on CCC
loans become effective
immediately, changes in
housing loans will be ef
fective at the close of
business June 13 and new
rates for farm loans will be
effective at the close of
business June 16.
The interest rate on all
1980 crop commodity loans
made by CCC is lowered
from 13 to 11.5 percent.
However, the mterest rate
on CCC farm storage facility
and drying equipment loans
will remain at the 13 percent
rate.
Interest rates for Farmers
Home Administration
economic emergency loans
to farmers were lowered to
11 percent for real estate and
to 11.5 percent for production
loans. Both had been 14
percent.
The new rates for
emergency disaster loans
will be 12.5 percent on real
estate and 13.5 percent for
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Tim T rayer Edgar Sheaff er
can recall one in particular a
few years back in which a
group of about 15, 400-pound
dairy heifers were turned
out on rapidly maturing
orchard grass pasture.
In a short tune almost 100
percent of the heifers had
damage in one or both eyes.
On examining the situation it
didn’t take long to find the
source of eye irritation. The
seedy awns of the orchard
grass were at eye level.
This eye irritation
problem has been alleviated
in subsequent year by
clipping the pastures before
introducing the stock or
before pasture is over ripe.
production loans. Both had
been 14 percent.
Mortgage interest rates on
low-to-moderate single-fa
mily homes were lowered to
11.5 percent and rural rental
housing interest rates went
to 10.75 percent. Both had
been 13 percent.
Regular Farmers Home
Administration farm real
estate loans will carry a new
interest rate of 11 percent
while regular farm
operating loans will be at
10.5 percent.
Interest rates for actual
loss disaster emergency
loans will remain at 5 per
cent as prescribed by law.
Interest rates for the
Farmers Home Ad
ministration program for
“limited resource” farmers
will remain at 5 percent for
real estate loans and 7
percent for operating loans.
Interest rates for loans
guaranteed by Farmers
Home Administration will
continue to be negotiated
between borrower and
lender. These include loans
for business and industrial
development, for housing for
persons with above
moderate incomes and for
some farm loans.
Conn . operator suspended
NORTH FRANKLIN, Ct.
Samuel Berkowitz, for
merly doing business as
North Franklin Commission
Sales, North Franklin,
Conn., has been suspended
for 18 months and ordered to
stop violating payment, trust
account and recordkeeping
requirements of the Packers
and Stockyards Act.
Berkowitz, who did
business in Connecticut,
Rhode Island and southern
Massachusetts, is not
operating at present. The
order, like a permanent
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injunction, was issued to
insure future compliance
with the P&S Act.
The order was issued m
default when Berkowitz
failed to answer an ad
ministrative complaint filed
by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Berkowitz was
ordered to cease and desist
from:
Issuing insufficient funds
checks or drafts in payment
for livestock purchases and
in payment of net proceeds
due consignors;
Failing to pay when due
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using funds due to con
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own purposes and otherwise
failing to properly maintain
his custodial account for
shippers’ proceeds.
The 18-month suspension
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his custodial account has
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